Lily-Rose has the leading role, but not alone: She plays the normal Alice, while two classmates impersonate the huge and the shrunken girl. As you know, when Alice follows a white rabbit with a pocket watch, she tumbles into a world where nothing is the way it was before. Flowers, caterpillars and cats can speak, the Mad Hatter celebrates his non-birthday, and the Queen of Hearts' court consists of playing cards. Alice becomes very tiny or very large by eating cookies or carrots, and finds that none of the social rules she has learned will help her advance in this world.

"It’'s nice and funny, everybody can laugh along", says Lily-Rose. And wonderfully colorful, adds Halina (15), who plays the Cheshire Cat. With costumes, make-up, choreography and stage design, the students were able to really enjoy themselves. The realization of Lewis Carroll's famous work is fittingly colorful. Zoe (16), who plays the Queen of Hearts, and likes to see heads rolling, thinks that it is much more suitable for primary school children. The biggest challenge? "Many who took part in Macbeth didn't want to (take part in the Alice in Wonderland musical) because they didn't want to sing."

Students rehearsed after classes and on weekends. During the dress rehearsal, the students seemed to have a lot of fun. Which is also due to the fact that they were allowed to have a say. So Halina and her two classmates, who play the Cheshire Cat together, had the opportunity to think up their own character. And they also had a say in other things, just not in the choice of roles: According to Zoe, there was a casting by age group, after which the roles were distributed.

"Alice in Wonderland" is open to the public this Thursday and Friday at 7 pm in the auditorium of Bonn International School, Martin-Luther-King-Straße 14. Admission is free, but you have to register by sending an e-mail to development@bonn-is.de .

(Orig. text: Stefan Knopp, Translation: Carol Kloeppel)